In the first six months of 2025, renewable energy defeated coal for the first time as the biggest source of power generation, which researchers called “historical changes”.
Global Energy Think Tank Amber analyzed data from 88 countries, simultaneously 93% of the global power demand.
Amber’s senior power analyst Malgorzata Wiatros-Motyka, “We are seeing the first signs of a significant gymnastics.” “Solar and wind energy is now growing rapidly to meet the world’s growing appetite for electricity. It marks the onset of a change where clean energy is keeping pace with demand.”
According to the analysis, the new global tendency was largely the largest by the largest economies. In India and China, a strong growth in renewable means that countries burnt low fossil fuels such as coal and gas.
In the US and the European Union, however, dependence on polluting sources of energy was raised. In the first half of the year, the US saw an increase in demand for energy, which carried forward the expansion of renewal, using more fossil fuels.
In the EU, weak winds and low hydropower generation were responsible for maximum use, according to the analysis of Amber.
Strong growth to continue in renewal
According to research by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the pace of renewable expansion is expected to remain high in the coming years. Solar energy is predicted to run most of the growth, mainly due to low cost and rapid approval procedures.
Wind energy is in second place, followed by hydropower, bio -organism and geotomical energy.
In Asia, Middle East and Africa, emerging markets are running the rapid expansion of renewal. It is capable by governments that implement reforms in favor of green power sources and determine ambitios goals.
In China, the increase in renewal is particularly strong, the country alone invested the most in clean energy globally at $ 625 billion (€ 535 billion) in 2024.
Overall, wind and solar energy increased rapidly than the demand for energy worldwide. Amber Analysis says that this is a sign that thesis clean fuel can replace fossil sources in the medium period.
This article was the original published in German.